The failing human heart augments the synthesis and alters the processing of atrial natriuretic polypeptide, particularly increasing beta-hANP, as a compensatory response to severe heart failure.
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May support compensatory ANP upregulation in severe CHF; hypothesis-generating for natriuretic peptide-targeted therapies.
Sugawara et al. (1988) studied this question.
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